saffian

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English

Etymology

From Russian сафья́н (safʹján).

Noun

saffian (countable and uncountable, plural saffians)

A leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 67:
  One of the three volumes Cyby had brought was as large as the top of a small table […] ; from the arms impressed upon its saffian cover, I supposed it to be the history of some old noble family.

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